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"We serve everybody. Policymakers can afford to skip the library [+ don't think abt what] other ppl are doing inside: getting respite from the 🥵 or 🥶, using the 🚽, occupying their kid for a half-hr, applying for a job, resting. It’s 🌏-making work + the people that we make those worlds for matter."
nytimes.com
Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say.
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
